ladybug
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Its ascendance has contributed to the population decline of various native ladybug species—and more Americans associating ladybugs with infestation and invasion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 16, 2025
In another, a ladybug drinks water from a dewdrop on a long blade of grass.
From National Geographic ● Jan. 22, 2024
I carried it with me every day, like I carried my pink, sparkly ladybug lunchbox.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 5, 2023
They giggled and zoomed in on their friends’ faces, and looked at the snow on the mountains and a ladybug on a blade of grass.
From New York Times ● Apr. 5, 2023
“It does,” I say, noticing a ladybug has landed on my hand.
From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson
A cluster of the insects is even known as a loveliness of ladybugs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 16, 2025
As he learned to live with an irregular heartbeat, he found joy in his family’s tiny garden and marveled at all the ladybugs that gathered on the tulsi, a special type of basil.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2024
Important factors are the places where the animals are found and their level of popularity -- squirrels and ladybugs come out on top here.
From Science Daily ● May 8, 2024
She arrived in a white short-sleeved, high-necked sweater, dotted with outsize ladybugs, and her affect was as wholesome, earnest and embraceably eccentric as her style.
From New York Times ● May 10, 2023
I walk back to the Gardens of Glenwood and I try to move in a very careful way because I don't want to jiggle the ladybugs.
From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan
